# Technical lead — webook.com

Canonical: https://jobxdubai.com/jobs/0e9c224e67-technical-lead
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: lead
Monthly salary: AED 34,300 to 53,900 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-09-14
Apply: https://apply.workable.com/j/0E9C224E67

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## Description

Do you want to love what you do at work? Do you want to make a difference, an impact, transform peoples lives? Do you want to work with a team that believes in disrupting the normal, boring, and average?
If yes, then this is the job you're looking for ,webook.com is Saudi's #1 event ticketing and experience booking platforms in terms of technology, features, agility, revenue serving some of the largest mega events in the Kingdom surpassing over 2 billion sales.

Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Delivery
- Act as the technical leader for your squad, owning system design, code quality, and engineering standards.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
- Contribute hands-on to the codebase when needed, especially for complex or high-impact areas.
- Review code, guide architectural decisions, and ensure best practices in testing, documentation, and observability.
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and sustainability.
Team Enablement
- Lead, mentor, and support software engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Support onboarding and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Provide clear technical direction while empowering engineers to make strong decisions.
Execution & Collaboration
- Own end-to-end execution for your team’s deliverables, from planning to production.
- Work closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Ensure alignment between product priorities, technical execution, and platform standards.
- Act as the first point of escalation for technical or delivery challenges within your team.
Operational Excellence
- Ensure production readiness, performance, and reliability of owned services.
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems.
- Continuously improve development workflows, tooling, and team productivity.
- Leverage AI and automation where possible to improve engineering efficiency and product quality.
Key Skills
- Deep expertise in Laravel/PHP backend systems, with experience designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance platforms.
- Solid knowledge of software development best practices, including code quality, testing, documentation, and observability.
- Deep understanding of large-scale, high-performance platforms, including SQL/NoSQL, caching, and concurrency.
- Strong strategic and operational planning skills, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system sustainability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (fluent English speaking and writing).
- Experience in Scrum and Agile methodology
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments is a plus.
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or technical thought leadership is a plus.

## Requirements

3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms. Experience contributing to open-source projects or technical thought leadership is a plus.

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